The dynamic nano is a new market where different actors interact: the technoscientific practice, the government, the investors and the users. This work use the literature on market design to analyse the specific market of “nanocarriers”.

This paper is an example of project valuation using fuzzy real options methodology. It is based on the previous work by Carlsson y Fullér (2000).

This work draws on the Supertask literature1 in order to better understand the conceptual and physical possibility of an infinite decision puzzle presented by Barrett and Arntzenius (1999, 2002). The first section presents the puzzle and two possible objections documented in the literature. The...

Históricamente, la teoría en valores extremos se remonta a los comienzos de 1709 cuando Nicolás Bernoulli planteó el problema de la distancia media máxima desde el origen de “n” puntos distribuidos aleatoriamente en un línea recta de distancia fija t. Mientras que Fréchet en 1927...

One of the most relevant issues in the risk analysis of the financial institutions´ investments is to determine the capital allocation in order to maintain its solvency and liquidity in adverse situations. The portfolio risk analysis is necessary for assuring the right selection of that capital...

Revista Sociedad y Economía # 21

In explaining economic phenomena, economic analysis concentrates on selected influences and fixes the host of other factors under a ceteris paribus clause. This view, which goes back to Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), is developed in the first part of the book. Aggregation is viewed as a particular...

Life annuities provide a guaranteed income for the remainder of the recipient’s lifetime, and therefore, annuitization presents an important option when choosing an adequate investment strategy for the retirement ages. While there are numerous research articles studying annuities from a...

Even 50 years after Modigliani/Miller’s irrelevance theorem, the basic question of how firms choose their capital structure remains unclear. This survey paper aims at summarizing and discussing corresponding recent developments in empirical capital structure research, which, in our view, are...

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecise wording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) that the protection of business methods by patents is prohibited in Europe. This paper investigates the legal framework set by patent laws with respect to the...